[users@httpd] Server side includes where the include is on another server...

["michael watson (IAH-C)" <mi...@bbsrc.ac.uk>]

Hello

I think I answered my own question, but lets try anyway.  I'm running
apache 2.2.4 on Red Hat and I want to user server-side includes.  I can
get them working if the include file is on the same server, but what I
really want is something like:

<!--#include
virtual="http://www.someotherserver.com/includes/leftcontent.html" -->

Where http://www.someotherserver.com is a server that is NOT the one the
shtml file is on, but a different server entirely (thogh still on our
intranet).

Is this possible?

Thanks
Mick

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Re: [users@httpd] Server side includes where the include is on another server...

[Nick Kew <ni...@webthing.com>]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:09:10 -0000
"michael watson \(IAH-C\)" <mi...@bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I think I answered my own question, but lets try anyway.  I'm running
> apache 2.2.4 on Red Hat and I want to user server-side includes.  I
> can get them working if the include file is on the same server, but
> what I really want is something like:
> 
> <!--#include
> virtual="http://www.someotherserver.com/includes/leftcontent.html" -->
> 
> Where http://www.someotherserver.com is a server that is NOT the one
> the shtml file is on, but a different server entirely (thogh still on
> our intranet).
> 
> Is this possible?

Not like that, though there's a patch that'll do it[1].

You can, however, reverse-proxy it:
<!--#include virtual="/backend/include/leftcontent.html"-->
and in httpd.conf:
ProxyPass /backend/ http://www.someotherserver.com/
etc.

[1] http://marc.info/?t=119353034300002&r=1&w=2

-- 
Nick Kew

Application Development with Apache - the Apache Modules Book
http://www.apachetutor.org/

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